Kemi Badenoch has slammed Sir Keir Starmer’s “extraordinary failure of leadership” over the grooming gang scandal. The Tory leader told the Common s on Monday that the announcement of an inquiry was “another U-turn”.

Yvette Cooper is preparing to make a major grooming gangs announcement after Sir Keir Starmer's inquiry U-turn over the weekend. The Home Secretary, who just last month rejected fresh calls for a nationwide probe,

After years of public outcry, multiple local reviews, and political hesitation, the UK government has announced a full national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs and institutional failures that enabled decades of child sexual exploitation.